OPENING A WINDOW TO YOU

by Nick Jaina

can I hate the surgery and love the scars?
can I hate the constellations and still love the stars?
can I hate your father and still bless his heart?
for opening a window to you

can I love a song from an awful man?
and can love do more than what awful can?
cuz I fucked it up but I understand
that it opened up a window to you

outside the mortuary
all my love and hate
feels so ordinary, oh
without the context
that we’re going to die

can I be afraid and still do my job
cuz my heart is howling like an angry mob
our house burned down so there’s nothing left to rob
but it opened up a window to you